Ridi pagliaccio

For the song from the opera Pagliacci, see Vesti la giubba.
Ridi pagliaccio
Studio album by
Mina
Released20 October 1988 (1988-10-20)
Recorded1998
StudioStudi PDU, Lugano
Genre
Length81:20
Language
LabelPDU
Mina chronology
Oggi ti amo di più
(1988) 		Ridi pagliaccio
(1988) 		Uiallalla
(1989)

Ridi pagliaccio is a double studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 20 October 1988 by PDU and distributed by EMI Italiana.

Overview

With this album, the singer celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of her creative activity.

The album was released as a double on vinyl, cassette and CD in two volumes as usual. Separately it was distributed only on cassettes. The album debuted at number five on the Italian albums chart. In its third week, it peaked at number two. The album spent fifteen weeks in the top ten, and nineteen weeks in total on the chart.[3] On the pan-European Music & Media' chart, the album rose to the fifty-first position.[4]

The cover art was created by Mauro Baletti.[5] In 2018, especially for Vogue magazine, the most vivid images of Mina were recreated, including the cover of the album Ridi pagliaccio. The model was Karen Elson.[6]

Track listing

Volume 1
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Il portiere di notte"Enrico RuggeriRuggeri5:37
2."Moody's Mood"Eddie JeffersonJames Moody2:27
3."Canzoni stonate"MogolAldo Donati3:53
4."This Masquerade"Leon RussellRussell4:23
5."Into the Groove"MadonnaStephen Bray5:02
6."It's Impossible (Somos novios)"Sid WayneArmando Manzanero2:57
7."Un'ora"Antonio AmurriBruno Canfora3:27
8."You'll Never Never Know"
  • Robi
  • Williams
  • Miles
2:53
9."La compagnia"MogolCarlo Donida Labati5:02
10."I Left My Heart in San Francisco"Douglass CrossGeorge Cory3:10
11."Noi due nel mondo e nell'anima"Valerio NegriniRoby Facchinetti4:25
Total length:43:16
Volume 2
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Ridi pagliaccio"Ruggero LeoncavalloLeoncavallo2:12
2."Das Kind ist in dem Teller" Massimiliano Pani1:12
3."Lui, lui, lui"Paolo LimitiPani4:16
4."È Natale"Valentino AlfanoPani4:20
5."L'ultimo gesto di un clown"
  • Limiti
  • Moreno Ferrara
Gianfranco Fasano4:03
6."Dalai"Samuele CerriRandy Jackson3:51
7."Un tipo indipendente"
  • Pani
  • Alberto De Martini
Pani5:03
8."Cuore, amore, cuore"LimitiPani4:25
9."Bignè"AlfanoPino Presti4:06
10."Rimani qui"Giorgio CalabreseRandy Jackson4:16
Total length:37:44

Personnel

  • Mina – vocals, backing vocals
  • Massimo Moriconi – arrangement, double bass
  • Massimiliano Pani – arrangement, backing vocals, guitar, programming, keyboards
  • Franco Serafini – arrangement, drums
  • Mario Robbiani – arrangement, strings
  • Ellade Bandini – drums
  • Paolo Gianolio – guitar
  • Renato Sellani – piano
  • Flaviano Cuffari – drums
  • Angel "Pato" Garcia – guitar
  • Walter Scebran – drums
  • Giovanni Tommaso – bass guitar
  • Alessandro Gallo – guitar
  • Claudio Wally Allifranchini – saxophone, flute
  • Cecilia Chailly – harp
  • Piero Cassano – backing vocals
  • Samuele Cerri – backing vocals
  • Simonetta Giribone – backing vocals
  • Moreno Ferrara – backing vocals

Charts

Chart performance for Ridi pagliaccio
Chart (1988) Peak
position
European Albums (Music & Media)[4] 51
Italian Albums (Musica e dischi)[3] 2

References

  1. ^ Mina - Ridi Pagliaccio, Vols. 1-2 at AllMusic. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  2. ^ "Mina e il jazz". Jazz Convention (in Italian). 17 December 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2023.
  3. ^ a b Racca, Guido (2019). M&D Borsa Album 1964–2019 (in Italian). pp. 225–228. ISBN 978-1094705002.
  4. ^ a b "European Top 100 Albums" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol. 5, no. 44. 26 November 1988. p. 48. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 March 2021.
  5. ^ Dalla Vecchia, Aldo (2020). Mina per neofiti: La vita, la voce, l'arte di una fuoriclasse (in Italian). Grafe.it. ISBN 9788893720885.
  6. ^ Maccari, Maria (21 September 2018). "Da Gisele a Maria Carla Boscono a Carla Bruni: omaggio a Mina su Vogue Italia". Vogue Italia (in Italian). Retrieved 8 June 2023.